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12A | 123 minutes

Director James Gray

Cast Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler, Ruth Negga

the surface of the Moon; an astronaut hurtling to Earth after owes an obvious debt to the operatic visuals of films such as , and . But in both story and spirit, it has more in common with the brooding melancholy of , as Brad Pitt’s emotionally numb astronaut Roy McBride, an intergalactic Captain Willard, sails through the unforgiving emptiness of space on a mission to track down his Kurtz-like father (Tommy Lee Jones) who’s gone mad somewhere near Neptune.

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